I do not understand why people continue to try and have a discussion with Mike. He is by far the most arrogant poster here. He is incapable of understanding any expression that does not march in lock step with his limited view of the world.
And if you are not careful he will call you a dumb *** and then ban your posts. Truth be told....not such a bad thing when you think about it.

I'll repeat again for you. Just because YOU want to limit the discussion to one topic, it doesn't mean everyone will follow your lead.

Part of the deficit talk was of wasteful spending. When others are talking about $84 that DOD pays for a $4 hammer, they're not talking deficit. They're talking wasteful spending. They're not talking savings accounts, treasury notes or deficit reduction. They talking about the government ******* away money and, as toddcomm noted, he'd rather spend that $80, hell maybe he buys pot with it, and get $80 worth of goods than the government pay 20x the value of a particular good.

Posted by bad_luck on 3/1/2013 11:18:00 AM (view original):If we're talking about the choice between overpaying for a wrench or putting that money back into your pocket or mine to buy groceries, pay the mortgage, etc, then it's better to leave it with us.

But if the choice is overpay and keep the deficit or not spend it (and not give anything back to taxpayers since it's a deficit), then the better choice right now is to spend it.

Posted by bad_luck on 3/1/2013 11:18:00 AM (view original):If we're talking about the choice between overpaying for a wrench or putting that money back into your pocket or mine to buy groceries, pay the mortgage, etc, then it's better to leave it with us.

But if the choice is overpay and keep the deficit or not spend it (and not give anything back to taxpayers since it's a deficit), then the better choice right now is to spend it.

Sure.

See the above post.

Are we just going to keep re-quoting ourselves?

I've said, multiple times now, that tax breaks are good. You spend your money better than the government. What point are you trying to make?

Posted by MikeT23 on 3/1/2013 2:38:00 PM (view original):So tax money plays no part in the revenue our government collects?

That is the money our government collects. But unless you're going to argue that $1.2 trillion of federal outlays is waste, eliminating waste doesn't get us down to tax revenues, it just reduces part of the deficit.